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Dipsomaniac and the abstainer...

Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The scientific facts, which w...

The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The criminal is the creative ...

The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Journalism only tells us what...

Journalism only tells us what men are doing; it is fiction that tells us what they are thinking, and still more what they are feeling. If a new scientific theory finds the soul of a man in his dreams, at least it ought not to leave out his day-dreams. And all fiction is only a diary of day-dreams instead of days. And this profound preoccupation of men's minds with certain things always eventually has an effect even on the external expression of the age.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The sincere love of books has...

The sincere love of books has nothing to do with cleverness or stupidity any more than any other sincere love. It is a quality of character, a freshness, a power of pleasure, a power of faith. A silly person may delight in reading masterpieces just as a silly person may delight in picking flowers. A fool may be in love with a poet as he may be in love with a woman.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

No animal ever invented anythi...

No animal ever invented anything as bad as drunkeness or as good as drink.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

...But nature does not say tha...

...But nature does not say that cats are more valuable than mice; nature makes no remark on the subject. She does not even say that the cat is enviable or the mouse pitiable. We think the cat superior because we have (or most of us have) a particular philosophy to the effect that life is better than death. But if the mouse were a German pessimist mouse, he might not think that the cat had beaten him at all. He might think he had beaten the cat by getting to the grave first.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

If you want the last word, apo...

If you want the last word, apologize

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Democracy means government by ...

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Compromise is never anything b...

Compromise is never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and the terror of a coward.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

All conservatism is based upon...

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

'My country, right or wrong' i...

'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst...

Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

People in general are cruel to...

People in general are cruel to one another. The only way to have fun to them is to make fun of someone. I hate that. Why can't someone be different.why can't someone be themselves without being made fun of? I hate society because of how they judge pe

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

There is a road from the eye t...

There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

A stiff apology is a second in...

A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Journalism largely consists of...

Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

No man who worships education ...

No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The object of a new year is no...

The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

You can never have a revolutio...

You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

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